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(Successful) Democracies Breed Their Own Support

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  • Acemoglu, Daron
  • Ajzenman, Nicolas
  • Aksoy, Cevat Giray
  • Fiszbein, Martin
  • Molina, Carlos

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Using large-scale survey data covering more than 110 countries and exploiting within country variation across cohorts and surveys, we show that individuals with longer exposure to democracy display stronger support for democratic institutions. We bolster these baseline fi?ndings using an instrumental-variables strategy exploiting regional democratization waves and focusing on immigrants' exposure to democracy before migration. In all cases, the timing and nature of the effects are consistent with a causal interpretation. We also establish that democracies breed their own support only when they are successful: all of the effects we estimate work through exposure to democracies that are successful in providing economic growth, peace and political stability, and public goods.

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  • Acemoglu, Daron & Ajzenman, Nicolas & Aksoy, Cevat Giray & Fiszbein, Martin & Molina, Carlos, 2021. "(Successful) Democracies Breed Their Own Support," SocArXiv khwzf_v1, Center for Open Science.
    • Handle: RePEc:osf:socarx:khwzf_v1
    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/khwzf_v1
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    • P16 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Capitalist Economies - - - Capitalist Institutions; Welfare State

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